Admissions & selectivity
Wheaton College (Massachusetts) Acceptance Rate & Admissions
What is the acceptance rate at Wheaton College (Massachusetts)?
Wheaton College (Massachusetts)’s reported acceptance rate is 67.7%.
- Acceptance rate · Fall 2024
- 67.7%
Source: College Scorecard · Fall 2024 admissions. Acceptance rates can change from year to year; this figure does not predict the current or next admission cycle.
How to interpret the acceptance rate
Wheaton College (Massachusetts) admitted 67.7% of applicants in the reported entering class. That rate was lower than the median of 75.7% for comparable institutions (same type and size), so its recent applicant-pool outcome sat below that reference point.
What SAT and ACT scores do Wheaton College (Massachusetts) students report?
At Wheaton College (Massachusetts), submitted scores place the middle half of enrolled SAT submitters between 1,220 and 1,390, and the middle half of ACT submitters between 29 and 33. These are the twenty-fifth through seventy-fifth percentile ranges for enrolled students who submitted scores, rather than minimum scores for admission.
Applicants should compare their own SAT score with the institution's 1,220 to 1,390 range and their ACT score with its 29 to 33 range. The figures offer context for recent enrolled score submitters, but they do not describe every enrolled student or predict an individual admission decision.
The ranges below describe enrolled students who submitted test scores at Wheaton College (Massachusetts). Use them as academic context, then check the university’s current testing policy for your application cycle.
- Approximate lower endpoint
- 1220
- Approximate upper endpoint
- 1390
Enrolled students who submitted scores. This range is not an admission cutoff. The endpoints add section percentiles; they are not verified composite-score percentiles. A separate SAT-equivalent average is not plotted as a median. Source: College Scorecard; sum of section 25th/75th percentiles; enrolled score-submitters.
- 25th percentile
- 29
- 75th percentile
- 33
Enrolled students who submitted scores. This range is not an admission cutoff.
Figures cover fall 2024.
Who enrolls at Wheaton College (Massachusetts)?
- Pell Grant recipients
- 22.2%
- Entering students outside the first-time, full-time group
- 5.0%
- First-year retention
- 82.2%
Retention source: College Scorecard; full-time first-year retention.
About these student measures
The entering-student group includes part-time entrants as well as other attendance patterns.
Wheaton College (Massachusetts) enrolls a modest undergraduate population with federal grant recipients and transfer entrants both present. Of 1,773 undergraduates, 22.2% receive Pell Grants, a financial-access measure, and an estimated 5.0% arrive as transfers or part-time students.
The composition points to a campus serving both students who use Pell support and those continuing studies begun elsewhere, without showing admission priorities for either group. These enrollment figures describe who attends rather than any individual applicant’s admission prospects.
Degree completion at Wheaton College (Massachusetts) runs ahead of the comparable-institution benchmark, offering a favorable cohort-level picture of finishing a degree. The six-year graduation rate for the first-time full-time cohort is 72.8%, above the median of 54.9% for comparable institutions in the same type and size.
Students also return after their first year at a rate of 82.2% among full-time bachelor’s-seeking first-year entrants, compared with 74.2% at comparable institutions in the same type and size. Pell recipients in the first-time full-time cohort complete within six years at 76.7%, above the overall rate by 3.9 percentage points.
Enrolled students can use these cohort-level rates as a guide to the paths previous entering classes have taken, rather than as an individual timetable. Retention and graduation both exceed their peer medians, and Pell completion sits above the overall completion rate.
Data & methodology
Sources and reporting periods: methodology.
Analysis and methodology by Daniel Rogers, founder of College Azimuth.
Explanatory text is AI-assisted drafting checked against those figures; it is not an additional data source.
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